Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Miles Malone <m.malone@××××××××××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] one machine out of many has nothing to update
Date: Thu, 06 May 2021 11:43:27
Message-Id: CAM8Dd_1RSiPBwShAxvboGXSCMrbZjq20kBdJ7qOKmQq=cemBcw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] one machine out of many has nothing to update by n952162
1 It's pointless to have things in your world set that are by the very
2 nature of the distro in the system set, it's just causing extra
3 dependency calculations to no purpose. You dont add gcc to the world
4 set either. or binhost. or libtools.
5
6 On Thu, 6 May 2021 at 21:27, n952162 <n952162@×××.de> wrote:
7 >
8 > On 5/6/21 10:55 AM, Walter Dnes wrote:
9 > > On Thu, May 06, 2021 at 07:42:19AM +0200, n952162 wrote
10 > >> This forum entry from 2018:
11 > >>
12 > >> https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1085556-start-0.html
13 > >> <https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1085556-start-0.html>
14 > >>
15 > >> lists various possible causes, all of which involve complicated or
16 > >> expensive fixes:
17 > > In a worst-case, you could try skipping manifest verification
18 > > altogether on the affected machine. You must do 2 steps to get that
19 > > working.
20 > >
21 > > 1) In /etc/portage/repos.conf/gentoo.conf set...
22 > >
23 > > sync-rsync-verify-metamanifest = no
24 > >
25 > > The default installed setting is "yes"
26 > >
27 > > 2) Add the line...
28 > >
29 > > sys-apps/portage -rsync-verify
30 > >
31 > > ...to package.use and then re-emerge portage.
32 > >
33 > > emerge -1a portage
34 > >
35 > Ok, that's good to have a way ...
36 >
37 > Question: (I know, this is old, but I'm still not comprehending it): why
38 > wouldn't you want portage in your world set?
39 >
40 >
41 >